Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

With President Obama's ceeding of the tax cut debate last night and the bullshit spin behind it I'm totally giving up politics. From now on this space will just be for random thoughts, videos and such. I don't expect many people to stay interested if any at all but from now on this blog is just for me anyway.

And for my first post I'd like to introduce you to my friend the Honey Badger, baddest mufuka on the planet!!!

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

I haven't posted anything in awhile because I am watching this lame duck session of Congress closely to see just what kind of courage Democrats have and if they are even worth supporting vigorously anymore. I hate the alternative but its hard as hell to keep promoting a party that continues to get its teeth kicked in and saying "thanks may I have another".

Well the first shot has been fired this morning as Senate Republicans en masse threaten to filibuster everything that doesn't pertain to tax cuts or funding the federal government. That means no votes on DADT repeal, unemployment, the START treaty etc.

But here's the rub, THEY ARE GOING TO DO THAT ANYWAY. I don't give a fuck if DADT repeal comes up first or last during this lame duck session the GOP is going to filibuster it. Same with unemployment benefits. Same with anything else the Democrats want.

So what is the upside of capitulating to their demands?

There literally is none.

The good thing is this will reveal very quickly whether Harry Reid and the rest of the Senate Dems have any balls or not. Either they go ahead and put everything they want to push through up for a vote, filibuster be damned. Or they hand over the keys of control to the GOP a little early and we get a taste of what the next two years will be like.

And honestly, if Democrats are dumb enough to fall for this bullshit I'll probably be shutting down this blog or at the least changing the direction of it. That, for me, will be the final straw.

I have no idea why Democrats aren't all over TV right now saying that they are speaking for the people when it comes to letting the Bush Tax Cuts for the wealthy expire. Really, I have no fucking clue.

ALL available polling shows that the American public supports this. Not just kinda supports it. OVERWHELMINGLY supports it. And yet its the Republicans who are claiming to be the voice of America in pushing for a permanent tax cut for the wealthy.

All this and last year Republicans repeatedly pointed out polling on health care in the midst of the reform fight to portray Democrats as over reaching. Yet now Democrats are damn near mute and once again allowing the GOP the moral high ground on a topic that the public has their back on.

Who in the fuck is doing the political messaging and planning for Congressional Democrats?! Or for that matter the White House?

All of those sumbitches should be summarily fired.

Democrats should have referenced polling on tax cuts so much by now that whenever some Republican hack like Mike Pence opens his mouth to try to portray keeping tax cuts for the wealthy as something most Americans want, any body interviewing him not employed by FoxNews would have to ask him why the polling doens't back that up.

Instead he and the rest of his cronies are allowed to create this false impression of the mood of the country with little to no pushback.

I mean got damn man, seriously. If we can't win on this issue, an issue WE HAVE ALREADY WON, then fuck it, all is lost!!!

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

President Obama has lamented since the GOP won back the House on November 2nd and made gains in the Senate that he believes the reason or part of the reason why Dems suffered so many defeats was because he had allowed Republicans to portray him as a tax and spend liberal in passing legislation to keep a terrible recession from becoming a full blown depression as well as health care reform. While its true that the messaging coming from the White House and Congressional Democrats was on the whole an epic fail I think to blame it all or even mostly on that is erroneous. And I think part of the problem is that President Obama and other Dems really believe people give a shit about whether he or they are a "tax and spend" liberal.

Here is what I see as the truth, had Congress passed and President Obama signed a much bigger stimulus there would have been an uproar momentarily but as the unemployment rate came down so would have people's anxiety levels. If going into this past November unemployment was down to something at least sellable like say 7% Americans would have voted for all those dirty fucking tax and spend liberals in record droves.

One thing about good policy is its hard to hide its positive outcomes. Republicans can, do, and will continue to kick Democrats' asses in messaging. Its just something they do better. But a slogan or a bumper sticker only lasts for a moment, results on the other hand stick. If Democrats ever figure out that as long as their legislation actually works then no amount of messaging will hurt them, then they will never have another problem when it comes to election season. But as long as they continue to buy into the GOP messaging themselves and fear being portrayed as something most Americans couldn't give a fuck about as long as times are good, they will continue to pass half ass measures and ultimately get punished for it.

Friday, November 5, 2010

I'll admit that I haven't been in a mood to blog lately. After all the bullshit that went down with Kendrick Meek and the blood bath Democrats in Florida rightly suffered on Tuesday I just don't have a whole lot to say. It didn't have to be this way but at this point the damage is done.

But I have to say what has been most infuriating to me the last couple of days is the spin I keep seeing from some Democrats and Liberals/Progressives in response to losing the House on election day and having the lead in the Senate whittled down to 53 seats. I keep seeing people talk about how "hard" its going to be for the Republicans now that they have to govern and the "trouble" John Boehner is going to have trying to keep his caucus together.

Folks, I have to ask, what in the fuck are you smoking?!

The next couple of years are going to look like this. John Boehner brings up crazy ass bills gutting social programs in the name of "fiscal responsibility". His caucus will pass such bills just to send it to the Senate and make all the ConservaDems uncomfortable. To block the bills the Democrats will have to have 40 Senators, fresh off Tuesday's ass kicking, who are willing to filibuster them. And all the while the GOP will once again dominate the messaging wars painting them as unAmerican for opposing the bills. The media will eat that shit up and suddenly recognize how ridiculous our filibuster rules are and paint Democrats as obstructionists as they never did the last two years when Republicans were breaking records for filibusters.

And here's the thing, if we all keep waiting on Republicans to implode like most of us have the last two years instead of actually going out and SUPPORTING our candidates WE will be the ones on the outside looking in after 2012.

At some point a lot of the folks on our side had better figure out that sitting on our asses and writing blog posts will not be enough to change where the country is headed. The crazy thing is you would think folks would get that now that the country has elected a bunch of ignorant as Tea Baggers to represent them rather than their "sensible" Democratic opponents, but it seems like our side is still stuck in this bubble where they really believe that Dems will win simply because they have the better policies.

Unless and until we learn how to fight these fear mongerers with better messaging and better strategies we are going to keep losing until both the White House and both houses of Congress are lead by Wingnuts. I hope sometime before now and 2012 people wake up to that realization because if not our country is going to be in a world of fucking trouble.

Friday, October 29, 2010

As crazy as it sounds I'm loving this story about the White House and Bill Clinton trying to get Kendrick Meek to drop out of the race at the behest of Charlie Crist.

Why you ask?

Because it was obvioiusly leaked by and afterwards pushed by Charlie Crist himself.

See when you start playing with footsie with a RAT like Crist this is the kind of shit that happens. I love that folks now see just how royally the White House and national Democrats have fucked up the race down here and that they all now have a lot of egg on their face. I love that up until Tuesday and maybe even after they will have to answer uncomfortable questions about it.

Kendrick Meek deserved a hell of a lot better and people like me will not forget.

This was in my opinion a great interview. Jon Stewart pressed President Obama on issues from the left and he didn't ask any softball questions. I thought President Obama knocked the interview out of the park though and my favorite part was when he leaned in like he was about to whup some ass over that "timid" comment lol